The field season has started
News 2020-06-22
This year's field season is underway and marine biologists from AquaBiota have recently returned from a fish survey close to the Eystrasalt bank, an exposed and...
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Näslund J., Didrikas T., Hellström P, Hellström M., Inventering av fisk vid Gåsefjärden i Karlskrona sk...
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Breakthrough in monitoring methods of polar bears through snow tracks. News from the BBC.
News 2019-10-01
To date, in order to take tests, polar bears have been tranquilised with dart guns or by examining dead animals. With a new method it is enough to find traces i...
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Nip in the bud- eDNA for early detection of deadly infectious disease
News 2019-04-18
New article. eDNA detects schistostomiasis (snail fever), the second largest cause of death in the world after malaria. The article presents a paradigm shift in...
Environmental impact assessments (EIA) and monitoring programs
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AquaBiota can be responsible for all or parts of an environmental impact assessment (EIA). Often, we have been responsible for describing local conservation...
Grayling and European chub found on the northern Baltic coast
News 2018-12-18
In May 2018, AquaBiota carried out inventories of coastal fish communities along the northern Baltic coast with the help of eDNA. A total of 27 fish species wer...
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Hellström, M & Spens, J. 2018. Inventering av fiskarter med fokus på lax (Salmo salar) med hjälp av eDNA i Piteälv, Norrbottens län. AquaBiota Rapport 2018:12.
(Salmo salar) med hjälp av eDNA i Piteälv, Nor...
Hellström, M & Spens, J. 2018. Inventering av fiskarter med fokus på lax (Salmo salar) med hjälp av eDNA i Piteälv, Norrbottens län. AquaBiota Rapport 2018:12.
(Salmo salar) med hjälp av eDNA i Piteälv, Norrbottens lä...
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eDNA-inventering av Större vattensalamander i Storsjöns fiskev&ar...
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Metabarcoding of fish communities in Pite river
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AquaBiota have analysed fish communities, including salmon, with eDNA and metabarcoding at ten locations. Salmon (Salmo salar) is an important fish species from...
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Hellström, M & Spens, J. 2017: eDNA – Fiskinventering vid Spjutmo kraftverk. AquaBiota Report 2017:12
av slem, avföring, svett och döda celler. Dessa genetiska spår kallas eDNA. Akvatiskt
Hellström, M & Spens, J. 2017: eDNA – Fiskförekomst i 10 kustmynnande vattendrag, Norrbottens län. AquaBiota Report 2017:10
eDNA utvanns (extraherades) enligt prot...
eDNA detects 84 fish-populations in ten Swedish coastal watercourses
News 2018-03-28
In February 2017 AquaBiota monitored fish-communities in ten coastward discharging rivers in northern Sweden, by using eDNA (environmental DNA metabarcoding). ...
eDNA-analyses in Svartån
News 2017-12-19
Using environmental DNA (eDNA) in a study on fish species diversity in Svartån, Östergötland in Sweden proves the method to be promising in monitoring pr...
Hellström, M. 2017: Fine tuning eDNA metabarcoding pipeline for assessment of WFD fish biodiversityin aquatic ecosystems. STSM CA15219 DNA-Aqua-net, Call 2: Scientific Report.
EU-grant for international research on eDNA of fish
News 2017-09-18
Micaela Hellström from AquaBiota was granted a short-term grant (Short Term Scientific Mission – STSM) from EU’s COST DNAqua-Net fond (CA15219). She spent...
AquaBiota now a member of a scientific committee for eDNA development
News 2017-03-16
Micaela Hellström from AquaBiota is now a member of the scientific committee in the five year EU project called Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment ...
Spens, J., Evans, A. R., Halfmaerten, D., Knudsen, S. W., Sengupta, M. E., Mak, S. S. T., Sigsgaard, E. E. & Hellström, M. 2016: Comparison of capture and storage methods for aqueous macrobial eDNA using an optimized extraction protocol: advantage of enclosed filter. Methods Ecol Evol. DOI:10.1111/2041-210X.12683.
Surveys linked to thermal power station in Lövsta and a new harbor
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AquaBiota has performed surveys before the development of the thermal power station in Lövsta and the construction of a new harbor for Sweco Environment AB.
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